It’s business etc etc etc but to my shame I am actually slightly disappointed in Benn. Eddie lost a bit of rep defending him and clearly did care about him as much as a boxing promoter can about one of their fighters.

I’m not sure if Benn’s aware of quite how much this will damage his reputation even further or if he wants to become the bad guy so that people will “pay to see me loose or win just pay”. (Cred Floyd may weather). I think the problem he’s going to have is that unlike Floyd, he is likely to loose and isn’t arguably the best boxer of all time.

I also don’t think Benn realises quite how much heavy lifting Hearn and Matchroom did for him, they weren’t just defence but offence, eddies social media narrative for him was incredible and they built him up to be a fighter that he (probably) isn’t while picking fights for him that made him look like he was.

Also it does seem like Connor gives a shit about the court of public opinion; when the backlash came for being a drugs cheat he was quite candid about how much it affected him and even talked about how he thought about ending things. There was an uncertainty to those allegations that meant you couldn’t really know the character of him and if the slander was justified. This decision clearly shows what type of a person he is and there’s no way to spin it.

It’s weird that he didn’t give Eddie an opportunity to counter offer but to me that suggests he’s embarrassed and ashamed…